When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.